American Investment Council’s Rebekah Goshorn Jurata Discusses Private Equity
President Chuck Redden with Rebekah Goshorn Jurata and Emory Cox.
This week the Rotary Club of Birmingham welcomed American Investment Council General Counsel Rebekah Goshorn Jurata. She discussed AIC's role in advancing access to capital, job creation, retirement security, innovation, and economic growth by promoting responsible long-term investment. She explained how regulatory agency rulemakings and actions impact private equity and credit and how AIC supports its members through advocacy, communications, and research. She stressed the importance of access to capital investment and the challenges of the current economic environment. She also evaluated how private equity supports business development in the state of Alabama.
"Jobs at private equity-backed companies in Alabama represent over 149,000. The private equity investment in Alabama is over $4.2 billion," Jurata said. “In the private equity and the private credit space, there is an alignment of interests of long-term capital investment…It's allowing small businesses who need more capital and direct investment with a long-term growth horizon, rather than some of the short-termism you would get in the public market, to be able to grow.'“
About Rebekah Goshorn Jurata
Rebekah Goshorn Jurata serves as the General Counsel for the American Investment Council (AIC). AIC, a leading trade association in the financial services industry, is an advocacy, communications, and research organization established to advance access to capital, job creation, retirement security, innovation, and economic growth by promoting responsible long-term investment. In her capacity as General Counsel, Rebekah assists in developing the policy positions of its members and coordinates the responses to regulatory agencies’ rulemakings and actions that impact private equity and credit.
Before joining the AIC, Rebekah served as a Board Member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). The PCAOB oversees the audits of public companies and registered brokers and dealers. As a Board Member, Rebekah assisted in the oversight and operations and actions of the agency, advised on all policy-related matters impacting the PCAOB’s statutory mandate and voted on enforcement actions and inspections of auditors.
Prior to the PCAOB, she served in the White House as Special Assistant for Financial Policy at the National Economic Council where she worked on a wide array of financial services policy issues including the U.S. capital markets, banking, insurance, and consumer protection. Before receiving her appointment as a commissioned officer at the White House, Rebekah held a variety of senior roles in the Federal Government including serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Financial Markets at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Senior Securities Counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, and Counsel to Commissioner Daniel M. Gallagher of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Rebekah has also spent time in the private sector where she worked as a Senior Associate in the Washington, D.C. office of an international law firm.
A California native, she earned a J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law and a Master of International Affairs with a concentration in International Management from the University of California, San Diego. Rebekah earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Management Science Economics, and Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science also at the University of California, San Diego.